Monday, October 19, 2015

The Victory of Death (THNK PRNTS 2nd Collection)

I first thought I was scared of death
itself but after looking at the bigger picture, I realized that it was its
mystery that scared me--not knowing where it leads if it does lead to
something, not knowing if I'll still be the soul that I was before it left my
now decaying body.

You see, I've always been a control freak.
Once I lose control of something, I get frustrated and depressed, and
eventually, lifeless. I tend to lose all the energy to do things when I know
the outcome is out of my control. Which is why the reality of death bothers me.
Unlike most people. I still haven't accepted its mystery and its power to catch
people off guard and strip them of their ability to control things that happen
to them. Because death is the most powerful force on earth—it’s uncontrollable.

Since death is an unsolvable mystery, it's
but logical that different people have different views on it. And just to jump
quickly, where there is room for much interpretation, there is space for art to
blossom. Naturally, the ringing fear of my twenty years brought me to the
beginnings of this collection.

I wanted to go away with the darkness of death
and instead, center on its ‘perks’: victory over the mortality of earthly life
and freedom from worldly chaos and human pain. Death is the dawn of letting go of material
riches and addicting vices. So if you’re poor, there’s no more struggling every
day for a better life. Or if you’re rich, there’s no more trying to maintain
your status or fearing the loss of your possessions. There wouldn’t be a craving
anymore for a drink or a smoke that people hated to admit enveloped their
cowardice by becoming a temporary escape to everything life throws them. There
wouldn’t be judgment if you’re black or white, rich or poor, educated or
illiterate, Catholic or Muslim, gay or straight. It doesn’t matter. Everyone’s
just a skeletal system without a need for a social status. And that for me is the beauty of death and immortality
where everything is ideally simple, peaceful and equal.

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specially "You see, I've always been a control freak. Once I lose control of something, I get frustrated and depressed, and eventually, lifeless. I tend to lose all the energy to do things when I know the outcome is out of my control. Which is why the reality of death bothers me." this part...